Posted on 01/30/2008 4:16:12 PM PST by khnyny
Reagan Library Republican Presidential Debate: January 30, 2008
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopefuls will face off Wednesday night without a familiar face as ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out and endorse front-runner Sen. John McCain.
The remaining candidates will take the stage in a debate -- sponsored by CNN, the Los Angeles Times and Politico -- beginning at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, follows McCain's Tuesday night win in the Florida primary.
McCain topped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 36 percent to 31 percent in the hotly contested race.
Giuliani placed third with 15 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 14 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was fifth with 3 percent.
Giuliani is expected to end his White House bid and endorse McCain at a campaign event in California later Wednesday, Republican Party sources said.
Minus Giuliani, the debate will be a four-candidate affair -- McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Paul -- with CNN's Anderson Cooper moderating.
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Capt McQuegg!
McCain extremely out of it... ruh roh, kissing up to Arnie, here comes an endorsement.
Only at the very end, in the hotel banquet room, are the hero and villain identified. Brilliant.
McCain going Al Gore!
Oh boy, here comes the Global Warming rape your wallet pitch from Cain.
Henceforth he shall be known as..Cain..
McCain is not on his game. He says he is a conservative but really does not speak as a conservative. He looks a little out of it tonight.
Yeap, first time, they invited him last year and he decided not to come to CPAC.
hitting his wife’s stash
McCain is the name droppa!!! Thats all he does when he isn’t grimacing. LOL
Did I just hear McAmnesty say he’s a Federalist?
Thanks!
JOHN MC CAIN as a FEDERALIST?!?!?!
OMG! He LIES- flat out LIES.
Stay classy, John.
I think Arnie gets facials and wears make-up, etc.
The same time he became a “conservative foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution”.
McCain lying again. The people of Alaska decided they wanted ANWR tapped, yet McCain voted ‘NO’.
McWhat’s His Name shows he is a GLOBAL WARNING WACKO!
Perot may have actually won the first time around had he not dropped out and back in. I think he was surprised, and frightened by the idea that he might actually have to be the president, which, IMO, he never really intended.
It can be done, but the circumstances have to be just right. If McCain wins the GOP nomination and Bloomberg jumps in, further splitting the liberal vote among Hillary, McCain and himself, a conservative third (or fourth) party could be viable.
mccain looks old enough to be Mitt’s father.
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